I’ve just had a new article published in the journal ‘surveillance and society’. This is a special edition with a nice collection of papers on medical surveillance.

The article can be found at this link:

http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ojs/index.php/journal

The review can be accessed here:

http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ojs/index.php/journal

Andy Miah and Emma Rich have written an insightful and provocative book about cybermedicine, the varieties of knowledge, experience and practice emerging at the intersection of health information and the Web.

Recently spoke at the launch of Dr Lee Monaghan’s new book Men and The War on Obesity.  A few pics from the event:

Lucy Aphramor, Emma Rich and Eoin Deveraux.

Lucy Aprhamor, Lee Monaghan (author) and Emma Rich

4th July 2006, Today i took part in a discussion on BBC Radio 4 ‘womans hour’ with Tam Fry, Honorary Chaiman of the Child Growth Foundation. Details below, listen to the discussion here

I have just secured a book contract with Routledge for a text with Professor John Evans and Rachel Allwood (loughborough University) ‘Fat Fabrications’. The book will be published in 2008, and explores the relationship between the obesity discourse, education and practice and eating disorders.

The gender sport and society forum (GSSF) is a forum for scholars and students interested in social research on gender and sport. I have established this forum as way to foster collaboration and provide a context in which to exchange dialogue about contemporary issues. Whilst the forum uses the term ’sport’ this is taken here to embrace the wider contexts of physical cutlreu and pedagogy, and invites discussion related to all these areas. The forum provides a list of relevant journals, bibliographies and current research. A number of e-resources are also listed, including links to research centers, university courses, individual home pages of scholars, as well as up to date news of conference and recently published papers and texts. The main feature of the forum is an e-group, designed to generate awareness of recent publications, forthcoming events/conferences (e-mailed directly to group members) and also provides a network for the discussion of key issues within the field of gender, sport and society.

To join GSSF follow the link (or www.gssf.co.nr)

I have co-authored a book on the medicalisation of cyberspace with Dr Andy Miah, Paisley University.

Synopsis
The medicalization of many aspects of social life, from childbirth to diet to housing, has become more and more apparent at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The involvement of ‘cyberspace’ in this new medicalized world is significant as medical advice and medication is now easily available on the Internet, e-communities of sufferers and users abound. However, the links between health and identity and cybercultural identity have been little explored. Exploring the complex social interactions between health, medicalization, cyberculture, the body and identity, “The Medicalisation of Cyberspace” addresses topical issues, looking at specific aspects such as reproductive rights and technologies, gender and sexuality, cyber identity and non-humanness.